NATO, gender and the military : women organising from within / Katharine A. M. Wright, Matthew Hurley and Jesus Ignacio Gil Ruiz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Katharine A. M., author.

Hurley, Matthew M., author.

Gil Ruiz, Jesus, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in gender and security

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change.

Gender mainstreaming.

Masculinity.

Women and the military.

Armed Forces.

Western countries--Armed Forces--Women.

Western countries.

Women and the military--Western countries.

Masculinity--Western countries.

Gender mainstreaming--Western countries.

Organizational change--Western countries.

Armed Forces--Women.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Physical Description:

xv, 169 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

"This book examines NATO's engagement with gender issues through its military structures. Drawing on newly declassified NATO documents, this volume provides the first comprehensive account of NATO's long-established engagement with gender issues. These documents bring to the fore the stories of the NATO women and 'gendermen' who have organised within NATO across the decades to advocate on gender issues and highlights the continued challenges to pursuing transformative agendas within resistant institutions. The book argues that NATO is an institution of international hegemomic masculinity, with gender norms and values learnt by member and partner states through socialisation and the engagement of a masculinist protection logic. It therefore provides an important context for NATO's recent implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda encapsulated in UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the seven follow-up resolutions. The volume interrogates how Women, Peace and Security has mapped on to NATO's pre-existing concerns as a global security actor, providing impetus for further critical knowledge building of NATO which centres on gender. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of NATO, critical military studies, gender studies, critical security studies and IR in general."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

NATO as an institution of international hegemonic masculinity

The long view: situating NATO's engagement with women, peace and security

NATO women and "gendermen"

Gendering NATO's core tasks: collective defence, crisis management and cooperative security

Military visions of a gender perspective

Conclusion. engaging NATO's gender story.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Wright, Katharine A. M., author. NATO, gender and the military

ISBN:

9781138593336

1138593338

OCLC:

1082970888